Accent's cost-effective package provides total support for all sizes of business for the provision, management and backup for small to mission-critical business servers.

We only provide systems with additional fail-over or clustered servers. This means that you have total backup in the event of server failure, and the second server is provided at reduced costs , so why not! Comprehensive support is supplied on all systems at operating system and hardware levels with Accent’s Silver or Gold care packages.

Consider the following scenarios:

Power supply fails – You have another redundant power supply to keep the systems up.

Disks crashes – You have mirrored disks within each server.

Motherboard / memory fails / or other major part – All disks are hot swap. Plug them into the fail-over server and off you go!

NO PROBLEM!

While your company carries on Accent will rectify the situation and bring your down server back on-line.

Rental includes :- All servers include:- Configuration includes :- Options :-
  • configuration
  • health monitoring
  • operating system kernel support, and
  • Accent silver support package.
  • redundant power supplies
  • dual Network Cards
  • Hot swap disks
  • RAID
  • Failover server
  • Servers are installed with Linux Operating System
  • Samba file share
  • Firewall protection
  • SMTP Email Server with POP-3 for client
  • Apache Web Server
  • Windows Management
  • MySql database
  • DLT or dds tape drives (require SCSI card)
  • Quad Xeon processors
  • Intelligent UPS
  • Good quality racks
  • Switches and Hubs
  • Accent off-site backup
  • Fault tolerant
  • Clustered
  • Linux Operating System
  • Open source - No licenses for Web, Email, Databases and more...
  • Monthly payments for servers and support
Example Configurations
Intel P4
Single Intel Pentium P4 tower comprising of :-
  • 256 MB DDR Ram
  • 2 x 80GB SATA Hard Drive
  • 2 x Embedded Gigabit NIC
  • Redundant power supply
  • Disk mirroring RAID 1
  • FREE backup server
from £65 per month
Intel Dual Xeon
Dual Xeon 3.0 Ghz comprising of :-
  • 1 GB DDR Ram
  • 2 x 250 GB SATA Hard Drive
  • 2 x Embedded Gigabit NIC
  • Redundant power supply
  • Disk mirroring RAID 1
  • FREE backup server
from £175 per month
Hot Swap SCSI - High performance server
Dual Xeon 3.0 Ghz tower comprising of :-
  • 1 GB DDR Ram
  • 4 x 73 GB Hot swap SCSI Drives
  • 2 x Embedded Gigabit NIC
  • Redundant power supply
  • Disk mirroring RAID 1
  • FREE backup server
from £225 per month
Rack Mount System
3u rack server comprising of :-
  • 2 x Intel Xeon 3.0 Ghz
  • 1 GB DDR Ram
  • 4 x 146 GB Hot swap SCSI Drives
  • Dual embedded SCSI conroller
  • 2 x Embedded Gigabit NIC
  • Redundant power supply
  • Disk mirroring RAID 1
  • FREE backup server
from £395 per month

Why contract Accent to supply and maintain your servers?
Is my business too small to install redundant servers?
Why rent the servers?
What licenses do we need on the servers?
What level of support is included?


Why contract Accent to supply and maintain your servers?

We specialise in providing low-cost high performance servers with a high level of redundancy. All our servers are configured with the following :-

Failover (backup server)

All Accent servers are configured with high redundancy and failover – activating redundant servers to replace servers that have become unavailable.

We group our minimum server configuration with a primary server and a secondary server. The options for failover are twofold – first the lower cost option requiring little to no administration is a manual swapover and the more complex scenario but used commonly on dedicated Web or Email servers is an automated failover using Linux clustering.

 
RAID

In addition to the secondary server we use RAID – disk mirroring. While we use high quality disks in our servers, the fact is that disks are inherently unreliable, and will fail, sooner or later. Restoring from backups is cumbersome, more than often not up-to-date and sometimes unreliable.

RAID, while not substitute for backups, can keep the systems up and running, ensuring a reduced downtime and no loss of data should occur.

RAID also reduces the urgency to provide a fix after a failure, reducing the need for having personnel/engineers available at all times.

 
Redundant Power Supplies
Accent servers, be they high performance SCSI Rack mount systems, or single Pentium P4 have redundant power supplies. In essence, this is a power supply that actually includes two (or more) units within it, each of which is capable of powering the entire system by itself. If for some reason there is a failure in one of the units, the other one will seamlessly take over to prevent the loss of power to the server.
 
Firewalls
If your business is connected to the outside world it is a priority to install a secure firewall. Accent severs are configured with two network cards. Access to the system is controlled by a firewall, allowing only data to be received and transmitted to authroised PC’s and Servers only. In addition to this on configuration Accent will setup only the services required, and allow/deny access to these services, as requested.
 
Easy management
Setup user accounts, file sharing and manage your email using locally or remotely using WebMin HTML interface.
 
Health monitoring

Accent can remotely monitor and report problems regarding network interface traffic, system load, memory usage, disk space and inode usage, problems with email and web server daemons, hardware errors, and more. Accent believe it is best taking pervasive action where possible rather than waiting for system critical problems to occur.


Is my business too small to install redundant servers?

Accent's cost-effective package provides total support for all sizes of business for the provision, management and backup for small to mission-critical business servers.

Many businesses who are migrating their servers to Linux can more than pay for new high availability of redundant systems. Accent spread the cost of the servers and support over a fixed number of months, ensuring it is affordable to all sizes of business.

Linux is open-source, no licenses are required for email, web, operating system or many applications which are compatible. Linux performs better when running multiple applications simultaneously on the server. Windows Best Practices dictates that a separate server should be deployed for each server task, one for file and print sharing, one for the web, one for email, and so on, hence does not require the same performance servers as Microsoft XP, nor the same number.


Why rent the servers?

Firstly, you are not just renting the servers, you are paying a monthly fee for total support and configuration.

Take away the headache and reduce the overall cost of your servers. With monthly payments there are no large capital outlays, and with Accent’s competitive rates labour costs are minimal. With our band of experienced technicians we will provide, support and configure your server, and ensure your company’s data is secure, and your operating environment is as good, if not better! than in multi-national corporates.

"The greatest efficiencies come from finding work that no longer needs to be done - and to stop doing it!"


What licenses do we need on the servers?

You do not require any licenses.


What level of support is included?

Hardware Support

All server rentals come with next day business support. This can be upgraded to 4 hour response normal working hours, or 24x7.

Linux Support

Accent configure the rental servers to your specification for your network, email, web, file sharing and install a firewall. Remote health monitoring is provided free of charge and any inconsistencies are reported automatically via email. The support is provided via Accent’s WebHelp system available 24x7.

Higher Level Support

Upgrades from Silver to Gold support which supplies restricted/unrestricted support for web, email and application support, on-line or if necessary on-site, is available. Prices vary dependent on the complexity of the set-up, number of users, services required and the server(s) installed. Please ask one of our sales staff to quote.